Companies want to keep their biggest customers happy, so they often provide accommodations to do so. And, as it turns out, the government — if it doesn’t already do so — probably wishes it did because ...

US GDP dipped by an annualized rate of 0.3%, adjusted for inflation (“real GDP”), after growth rates of 2.4% in Q4, 3.1% in Q3, and 3.0% in Q2. A massive spike in imports, by far the worst ever, on ...

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates last week because of fresh worries about the jobs market, but the broader U.S. economy still appears to be in pretty good shape thanks to American consumers.